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  • Bottle Caps and Pink Pearl Erasers

    Bottle Caps and Pink Pearl Erasers

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    Since buying my first “collectible” postcard, I have often thought that there are postcards for “everything.” I don’t know if it’s true, but a recent discovery, the card you see here, is my very first Bottle Cap postcard. So, check Bottle Caps off the list.

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  • Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

    Thomas Edison and Henry Ford

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    Thomas Edison and Henry Ford had become friends when Ford worked for Edison in Detroit. They established Winter retreats next to each other in Fort Myers, Florida. The inventor and the automobile magnate collaborated on several projects and were still close when Edison died in 1931.

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Past Article

George Miller
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Hallelujah, Amen! From the mountains of Maine to the beaches of California, in the early twentieth century “that ole time religion” was good-enough-for-me!” These are words that were sung to “wish-away” the erosion of Protestantism. In the hopes of re-awakening and revitalizing the Protestant religion in America, the country turned to the evangelist, one after another. Postcards documented many aspects of the era.

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